The Xen Project hypervisor is an open-source type-1 or baremetalhypervisor, which makes it possible to run many instances of anoperating system or indeed different operating systems in parallel on asingle machine (or host). The Xen Project hypervisor is the only type-1hypervisor that is available as open source. It is used as the basis fora number of different commercial and open source applications, such as:server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardwareappliances. The Xen Project hypervisor is powering the largest clouds inproduction today.

This package contains the command line tools, needed to manage virtualmachines running under the Xen hypervisor.